This comic is the third component of a three part process during the second narrative unit at Freestyle Academy. The first component was conceptualizing and writing a story in English that addressed four different perspectives from a single story. The story takes place in Tokyo Japan where Satou Susuki questions his sanity and the mundane cycle of his working life of recording consumer purchase data. In an attempt to find stability he goes to desperate means of gambling at Japanese casinos known as “Pachinko Palaces”. The three additional perspectives of this story are of a foreigner woman that encounters Satou on a bullet train to Satou's work, an owner of a Pachinko Palace that Satou visits, and a final perspective from a night cleaner at Satou's work. Once the four essays were complete, I then created an abstract monster-like representation of Satou with clay to express his persona. I brought the clay character into Illustrator and then traced it with the pen tool. I used the my traced drawing inside of this six panel comic that tells the story from an opening scene of the first perspective story. I wanted to express Satou's helplessness in life with dark colors, and demonstrate the repeated cycle of his life with a white arrow that points back to the top of the page.
